If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane.

We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵

I hold two opinions at the same time: 1) Many CEOs are vilified for the dumbest reasons (many are not even filthy rich), so generally vigilantes should not go around targeting them 2) The #UHC CEO assassination was justified, a long time coming, and I don't blame anyone for lacking sympathy #dgg

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I mean this is hilarious

#uhc #UnitedHealthcare #dgg

(Sidenote, i saw some people on reddit calling him #TheClaimsAdjuster, let’s make it a thing)

Effort thread from a BlueSky user who finds a misinformation network. cc: @logicallyjc.bsky.social , because I noticed he is following politichick. #dgg

“Sports ball” and “I don’t even own a TV” are virtue signaling for virtues that suck

After working with #OpenAI 's Whisper model (locally on GPU) for some time and its associated headaches, I just started experimenting with #deepgram 's #Nova2 model (API) and it is exponentially faster and cheaper. I haven't dug deep enough yet, but is this too good to be true? What am I missing?

How do I make the "What's Hot Classic" feed less horny?

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

#dgg #dggL #daliban

A sprinkle of antisemitism to start your day right

Skeeting into the void right now, but would anyone be interested in collaborating in developing a monetary policy simulator/game? Something that maybe the above average #Victoria3 player would enjoy. The goal would be to improve intuition on arcane things like eg. #repo markets. #python #macro #dev